Age should not slow you down as these pics show!

Bloody hell this just shows you age is in your mind!

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Old-ympics: Gran And Grandad Games

Held in Australia

The Games attracted 28,292 competititors from 95 countries ranging in age from 24 to 101.

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Some competitors didn't appear to worry so much about being well-toned

athletes. This woman 83 years old smoked a cigarette while

taking part in the bowling

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And they're off!

Earl Fee of Canada (centre) leads his 80-84 age group in the 100-metre

sprint on the track.

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Another swimmer, 98-year-old Margo Bates, prepares for the 100-metre backstroke

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Jack Mathieson, aged 91, poses after swimming in the 800-metre freestyle.

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More than 28,000 athletes took part in the Sydney competition. They included

a bearded man called O Santa Claus.

He ran in the 100-metre sprint in the 80-84 age group.

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The100 year old great-grandmother from Brisbane won the gold medal in

shot put- then again, she was the only competitor in her age group.